Architect：SHAU

Location：Semarang, Semarang City, Central Java, Indonesia; | ;

Project Year：2021

Category：Shops;Restaurants

DipoMuria commercial center in Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia,hosts a photostudio, restaurant, café, and retail shopand is modelled after an urban village typology. On onehand this makes the design fit better into the low rise and small-scale residential neighborhood and on the other hand also gives the possibility to play with the volumes and provide more experienceable sequences of in-between spaces to explore and hang out.

The volumes are grouped around a central courtyard, the heart of the ensemblewhich is connected to the outside but also to terraces on the second floor.The courtyard features a slide for kids to play but is also usable as backdrop for action and group photo shootings.

The village-like massing is split horizontally through change in materiality and color having a more grounded plinth level containing all the outer stairs, materialized by rough plaster and a smoother and reflecting upper level in form of polycarbonate façade cladding.

Most of the larger, glazed façade openings are facing North-South direction and are shaded by overhangs whereas the East-West facades are more closed, and openings are located behind the polycarbonate facades. The window to wall ratio is also kept to a minimum to reduce unnecessary heat gains. The outdoor areas provide ample seating areas.